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1000 Followers!

A few days ago I found out I had reached this unbelievable milestone! After I regained consciousness, my first reaction was something like this:

And this:

And just a little of this:

Okay. And this as well:

Since then, I’ve actually reached 1,010 followers, not that I’m counting or anything!

Seriously though, I really want to thank all of you who follow me. I started this blog back in July of 2014 simply because I had recently become disabled and missed being a librarian. To be honest, after twenty-six years of being a reading advocate, I was floundering. But then I stumbled upon the wonderful community that makes up WordPress. Since then, I’ve had over 41,000 views and almost 16,000 visitors, which I find completely unfathomable. I’m not very skilled technologically speaking, so By Hook Or By Book isn’t exactly the flashiest blog out there. Yet, you all come to visit, read my reviews and share your thoughts, and for that I just can’t thank you enough. I’ve made so many friends from all over the world, which has made blogging an incredibly enriching experience for me. I will endeavor to keep providing honest book reviews, the occasional political post when I’m feeling especially aggravated, as well as some inspirational and humorous ones. If there’s anything you find lacking and you’d like me to add, please let me know. In the meantime I just want to thank all of you again, for making this such a rewarding experience!

Thanks so much Jeanne! I feel like I should rename the blog The Little Engine That Could! And, by the way, 400 followers isn’t exactly anything to sneeze at. Especially given that that you’re such an accomplished writer. Just sayin’.💁🏻😊

What happens when you try to? I know unless you have an enhanced account you need to use a third party like YouTube or Vimeo, but if you have the next step up (premium I think, which I’ve been heavily debating) you can post both video and audio links without doing that! Hopefully you’ll figure it out soon *fingers crossed*

I haven’t tried it for a while, but I’ve made a few attempts with YouTube and I follow the instructions, but nothing ever downloads onto my blog. I don’t know if it’s me or if it’s because I’m using my iPad since I don’t have a laptop.😕

It was only 9 days ago that you wrote this comment on my own post about having 1,000 followers.
“This is HUGE Pete! Congratulations! I’m about 22 followers away from that milestone myself and I’m hoping to reach it before the end of the year.💁🏻”

So it didn’t take that long to reach that milestone for you too!
Well done, Kim. You are a very ‘engaged blogger’, and that makes all the difference to followers.

Well done on your four figures followers – that’s a brilliant achievement in a short time scale!

Just picking up on an earlier post ‘re YouTube, are you pasting the ‘ share’ link on a line of its own and doing this on the visual tab, NOT the html one – counterintuitive I know – I don’t think it works if you paste it into the Html text tab. And I don’t think it works if you copy the link appearing in the browser at the top of the YouTube page – just the ‘share’ one. I hope that makes sense

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